'Few candidates run for Texas political office on a platform of making things better for kids who need good homes, or who need to flee abuse or neglect.' — rossramsey
for putting Texas kids in inadequate and unsafe out-of-state facilities when the Texas system was out of space. The judge’s appointed monitors are watching, reporting back to the judge, getting the state called in for explanations and solutions, in a repeating cycle of findings and scoldings and orders for remedy that has lasted for a decade.
It’s hard to explain why it’s not a campaign issue, or a big concern for voters, but it isn’t hard to see that the Department of Family and Protective Services isn’t gaining ground — and isn’t getting any help from the elected officials who have the power to improve the program — or even to make it a model for other states.at the beginning of the year to hold the state in contempt for a third time for not taking care of reforms she ordered two years ago.
since 2020 while in the state’s child welfare system, a small percentage of the kids in the system, but still an appalling toll. “Since 2020, six children died by drowning. Six children died by suicide. One child died this year from a gunshot wound during a pursuit by law enforcement. Three died from physical violence after running away from Child Protective Services,” he reported.
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